Senior Director, Public and Media Relations
Loyola Marymount University - Long Island City, New York, United States, 11101Work at Loyola Marymount University
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Below, you will find a complete breakdown of everything required of potential candidates, as well as how to apply Good luck.Position Specific Responsibilities/Accountabilities Leadership and Personnel Management
Direct and oversee the university's public and media relations team: set objectives, manage budgets, monitor performance, and assess outcomes. Lead a service-oriented team environment that fosters collaboration, transparency, teamwork, flexibility, and creativity. Coach team members to maximize creativity, productivity, and effectiveness.Review and approve public statements, news advisories, press releases, articles, and other externally focused communications. Assure timely dissemination of university news and information by managing internal communications, editorial schedules, and production calendars.Serve as the university's lead public information officer and spokesperson. Respond to, handle, and resolve inquiries, comments, and other feedback from the general public.Cultivate relationships with faculty and senior administrators. Provide media training, develop expert resources for the press, and coordinate and manage spokesperson resources.Lead issues and crisis communications planning and management. Collaborate with key external and internal contacts to ensure the university's crisis response safeguards community members, institutional reputation, and serves the informational needs of the public.Advise the SVP of Marketing, Communications, and External Relations, the VP of Communications and Public Relations, the President, the Cabinet, the Deans, and other senior leaders on public and media relations topics. Serve as a media publicist for university leaders to increase their external thought leadership and promote positive university positioning.Public and Media Relations Strategy, and Planning
Maximize the university's exposure and visibility by designing and implementing external communications strategies that cultivate the university's relationships with the media, engage target audiences, increase favorable news coverage, decrease unfavorable news coverage, and boost brand awareness. Ensure efforts integrate with the goals of the university, the colleges/schools, enrollment management, and supports the university's overall public outreach efforts. Cultivate and steward strategic relationships with external influencers, members of the news media, elected officials, and business leaders.Execute communications and creative projects. Collaborate with marketing and communications colleagues, university clients, and external partners to ensure projects are completed by identified deadlines and on budget. Assure successful outcomes by adopting best-practice project management methodologies, quality assurance metrics, and risk mitigation plans. Ensure the integrity, high-quality, and consistency of the university's image, tone, style, narrative, visual identity, and brand.Manage and/or produce annual reports, coverage and visibility metrics, manage the implementation of concurrent, interdependent short-, medium-, and long-term plans to build a robust, responsive, broad-based communications program.Create, recommend, implement, and monitor compliance with the university's public and media relations policies, protocols, procedures, and workflows.Manage and support a data-driven and evidence-based decision-support environment. Collect, review, analyze, and evaluate data metrics and analytics. Maintain a library and archive of relevant facts, news clippings, rankings, and other fact-checking sources.Perform other duties as assigned or requested by leadership.Loyola Marymount University Expectations
Exhibit behavior that supports the mission, vision, and values of the university. Promote an environment that supports diversity and inclusivity. Communicate and employ interpersonal actions that model high standards of professional, responsible, accountable and ethical conduct. Demonstrate a commitment to outstanding customer service.Requisite Qualifications
Typically a Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, public relations, or related field or equivalent experience. Master's degree preferred. Incumbent will be expected to continue upgrading knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to keep abreast of communication best practices.Minimum eight years' public relations and/or media management experience in an institutional or corporate role with a record of management and supervisorial experience; ability to work effectively and independently with internal and external constituencies and with professionals of varied disciplines to accomplish tasks and projects.Demonstrated experience managing and executing across multiple communications and marketing channels and media; highly developed skills in communications writing and editing.Highly collaborative style with experience developing and implementing communications strategies successfully; background that demonstrates relationship-building, consensus-building, flexibility, and managing through influencing.Evidence of high energy leadership style with a track record for leading both strategic and tactical communications efforts.Self-starter, able to work independently and entrepreneurially; experience creating, developing and implementing new initiatives.Demonstrated computer competency with common production software suites, such as photo editing software, email marketing tools, and analytics reporting software.Ability to produce high-quality deliverables with meticulous attention to detail. Must be metrics-driven and results-oriented with demonstrated analytical skills.Ability to provide quick turnaround and updates for multiple requests while maintaining a strong reputation for high-quality work.Self-starter with the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a cross-functional team.Must be able to perform successfully in a fast-paced, intellectually intense, and service-oriented environment. Experience working successfully within a complex organization. Willing and able to adjust to changing demands and shifting priorities.The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
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